The Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Conference 2015 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Saturday, 18 April 2015

We are inviting submissions for papers to be presented at the annual Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Conference taking place on 18 April 2015. This year’s theme is ‘”Jargon of Men and Things”: Production and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century.’

The conference is drawing its theme from current interdisciplinary interest in production and consumption of all kinds – bodily, intellectual and material – as it relates to issues such as power, desire, reception, regulation and identity in flux. We are seeking papers, of around 20 minutes in length, from graduate students that will interrogate this common collocation, and its mediation through eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and textual ephemera, as well as material and visual culture.

Papers from any disciplinary perspective would be welcome on any aspect of this conference theme.

Registration for attendance will close on the morning of Saturday, 11 April. Please bring on the day a £10 fee in cash or cheque made out to the University of Cambridge. This price includes teas and coffees, lunch and an evening wine reception. We would appreciate if attendees would reserve a space before hand by sending an email to english18.graduateconference@gmail.com.